More than five years into the forced Syrian regime change effort, NATO’s media allies are sounding desperate. How else to describe the increasingly shrill, and dizzyingly frequent condemnations from “unnamed sources”? Even the staid old CBC has leapt into the new news paradigm fray, massaging Washington’s message, even while entombing its journalistic credibility.

The recent photo-bombing of a five year old victim, if not a new tactic in the propaganda war, marks a new low, leaving only a descent to tales of babes on bayonets, or the same thrown from incubators onto the cold, cold floor.

Mark Taliano is a Canadian writer, researcher, and activist who, after a career instructing the youth of the nation, has turned his attention to educating the rest of us. His articles can be found at Global Research, American Herald Tribune, IntrepidReport, and at Pacific Free Press, among other places. His latest article, ‘Imperial Lawlessness’ argues, “The dirty war on Syria will be settled on the battlefield. International law is broken.”

Mark Taliano in the first half.

And; Canada’s iconic rock and roll band, ‘The Tragically Hip’ finished a curtain-dropping concert on their lengthy career over the weekend, with Hip front-man, Gord Downie – dying of inoperable brain cancer – voicing support for Canada’s hip, young prime minister, Justin Trudeau. Downie specifically mentioned Trudeau’s stated support on the many First Nations issues left unaddressed by all previous governments. But, not everyone agrees; some critics singling out the green lighting of the Site-C Dam project in BC as a prime example of a Liberal forked-tongued policy.

Ken Boon is a Peace Valley farmer standing to lose his livelihood should Site C be built. He’s also the president of the Peace Valley Landowners Association, and one of the six cited by the Crown corporation in its suit for, “intentional interference with economic relations by unlawful means.” I spoke with Ken in early June about the contentious Site-C.

Ken Boon and the dam Justin would see built in the second half.

And; Victoria Street Newz publisher emeritus and CFUV Radio broadcaster, Janine Bandcroft will be here at the bottom of the hour to bring us news of coming good times in, around, and on the streets of our town, and beyond there too. But first, Mark Taliano and at international law’s end in Syria.

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